Yes Jesus is YHWH become flesh. No one comes to the father except through Jesus and Jesus is the same today yesterday and forever. Jesus is the perfect representation of the nature of God and the cross is the perfect representation of God's love. I believe Jesus is the lens through which we should read scripture. Jesus is the key.

Honestly in a way it's kinda a relief to see fellow evangelicals support Trump... Because at least now I know that the political support for the right is not based on morality or scriptures. At least we can no longer call the right "the moral majority", the truth has been unmasked that it's more to do with tribalism than faith.

Oh yes I see what you mean. I don't know enough to say. I just googled and interestingly enough most Irish Americans today are Protestant rather than Catholic, especially in the south. It would be an interesting question to ask why. I would be interested in what role irsh Americans played in the American revivals, restoration and holiness movements.

I also know there was a time when lot of Irish immigrants married black spouses. Which is why we see a lot of Irish names in the black community "Michael Jordan", "Eddie Murphy", "Shaq O'Neal" etc. Even president Obama claimed Irish ancestry.

I know you said you have repented. You might already know this and are doing this, but you should try to be the spouse you want her to be. Be like Jesus to the church, a self sacrificing servant. Don't tell her to submit to you, show her what submission looks like by your own submission in love. No marriage has ended when both spouses were intent on serving one another.

A good SDA will agree that Jesus is the son of God, died for our sins etc... There are a minority of SDA with more concerning beliefs because they think that Jesus is the arch angel Michael, and have some strange beliefs about the trinity. There are also a few SDA with concerning conspiracy theories about the US government.

In my opinion soul sleep is not so concerning. The idea is when you die, your soul sleeps until the ressurection. IMO this is a possiblely true although there are competing theories.

I dated her for a couple of months, even took her to church with me, but our break up wasn't over theology. SDA was more her parents church and she was actually quite open about other denominations.

Confirmed. I don't like small talk, and I prefer people being open about their opinions and I don't mind disagreements. "Beating around the bush" is especially badpromenent in the southern US. I'm learning to be less diret myself to not unintentionally offend.

I believe that when Jesus commanded us not to judge others He meant we shouldn't judge individuals by saying who will and won't go to hell, and we shouldn't judge ourselves to be better than others or judge the sin of others to be worse than our own.(plank in the eye parable)

But this doesn't mean ignoring sin or not saying anything about it. "Judge the sin not the sinner" is good advice, but often difficult to follow. It so tempting to judge the sinner. And there are a lot of examples where another person's sin is seriously hurting others and we absolutely should step in and do something about it.